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tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-12-28 01:38 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2010-12-28 01:38 am
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Valjean-Javert chase route through Paris
The read-through thread for "À chasse noire, meute muette" finally gave me the necessary kick in the pants to post my last round of Paris photos--Valjean's flight through the Left Bank of Paris and Javert's pursuit. My guide for all of this was the invaluable book companion to Carnavalet's "Paris au temps des Misérables" exhibit, which also furnished me details on the inspirations and probable location of the convent.
BANDWIDTH WARNING: There are almost 50 images at 800x600 under the cut. If that makes your internet connection go "D:", I suggest you instead visit the Abaissé thread, which is identical except that the images are in link form.
If you want to be able to visualize all this on a map, just type any of the street names below into Google maps, i.e. "rue tournefort, paris."
So Valjean has left the Boulevard de l'Hôpital and plunged into the neighborhood of the Rue Mouffetard. "He combined in various ways, in clever strategies, the rue Censier and the rue Copeau, the rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the rue du Puits-l'Ermite."
Rue Censier:
The rue Copeau has been renamed rue Lacépède:
The rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor has been renamed rue de Quatrefages:
Rue du Puits de l'Ermite:
"...as eleven o'clock sounded at the church of St-Étienne-du-Mont, he was crossing the rue de Pontoise in front of the police commissioner's office at number 14."
"He made a circuit, turned by the passage des Patriarches which was closed because of the time, paced along the rue de l'Épée-de-Bois and the rue de l'Arbalète, and sank into the rue des Postes."
Passage des Patriarches:
Rue de l'Arbalète:
The rue des Postes has been renamed the rue Lhomond, but the old name persists in the Passage des Postes that connects it to the rue Mouffetard:
Rue Lhomond:
"There, there is an intersection where today the Collège Rollin stands, and where the rue Neuve-Ste-Geneviève branches off."
The intersection (Place Lucien Herr):
The rue Neuve-Ste-Geneviève is currently named the rue Tournefort, and it was the location of the real convent Hugo based the fictional Petit-Picpus on.
(the old name is still visible carved onto the side of the building)
(looking down a side street)
Location of the convent:
Another old street-name carving on an adjacent street:
And Valjean makes his break for the Jardin des Plantes and the Pont d'Austerlitz: "He left behind him the rue de la Clef, then the Saint-Victor fountain..."
Rue de la Clef:
Pont d'Austerlitz:
Once Valjean gets over the bridge Hugo starts completely making up the geography, but the smart folks at Carnavalet have figured out that the closest modern street to the Petit-Picpus convent would be the rue Traversière near the Gare de Lyon:
Aaaaand in the actul Picpus neighborhood of Paris was the convent of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of the Perpetual Adoration, with its super-creepy garden adjoining the Cimetière de Picpus, which contains a mass grave of guillotine victims from 1794. Ask me about the time I went in here when I wasn't welcome, almost got locked in overnight, heard phantom singing from the empty church, and was half-seriously considering calling a_marguerite to have me smuggled out in a coffin.
BANDWIDTH WARNING: There are almost 50 images at 800x600 under the cut. If that makes your internet connection go "D:", I suggest you instead visit the Abaissé thread, which is identical except that the images are in link form.
If you want to be able to visualize all this on a map, just type any of the street names below into Google maps, i.e. "rue tournefort, paris."
So Valjean has left the Boulevard de l'Hôpital and plunged into the neighborhood of the Rue Mouffetard. "He combined in various ways, in clever strategies, the rue Censier and the rue Copeau, the rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor and the rue du Puits-l'Ermite."
Rue Censier:
The rue Copeau has been renamed rue Lacépède:
The rue du Battoir-Saint-Victor has been renamed rue de Quatrefages:
Rue du Puits de l'Ermite:
"...as eleven o'clock sounded at the church of St-Étienne-du-Mont, he was crossing the rue de Pontoise in front of the police commissioner's office at number 14."
"He made a circuit, turned by the passage des Patriarches which was closed because of the time, paced along the rue de l'Épée-de-Bois and the rue de l'Arbalète, and sank into the rue des Postes."
Passage des Patriarches:
Rue de l'Arbalète:
The rue des Postes has been renamed the rue Lhomond, but the old name persists in the Passage des Postes that connects it to the rue Mouffetard:
Rue Lhomond:
"There, there is an intersection where today the Collège Rollin stands, and where the rue Neuve-Ste-Geneviève branches off."
The intersection (Place Lucien Herr):
The rue Neuve-Ste-Geneviève is currently named the rue Tournefort, and it was the location of the real convent Hugo based the fictional Petit-Picpus on.
(the old name is still visible carved onto the side of the building) (looking down a side street)Location of the convent:
Another old street-name carving on an adjacent street:
And Valjean makes his break for the Jardin des Plantes and the Pont d'Austerlitz: "He left behind him the rue de la Clef, then the Saint-Victor fountain..."
Rue de la Clef:
Pont d'Austerlitz:
Once Valjean gets over the bridge Hugo starts completely making up the geography, but the smart folks at Carnavalet have figured out that the closest modern street to the Petit-Picpus convent would be the rue Traversière near the Gare de Lyon:
Aaaaand in the actul Picpus neighborhood of Paris was the convent of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary of the Perpetual Adoration, with its super-creepy garden adjoining the Cimetière de Picpus, which contains a mass grave of guillotine victims from 1794. Ask me about the time I went in here when I wasn't welcome, almost got locked in overnight, heard phantom singing from the empty church, and was half-seriously considering calling a_marguerite to have me smuggled out in a coffin.
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